World War 2 PhotographsPart 51945

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This year a world at war found peace. Healing would not be easy. Victory for allied nations appeared inevitable, but the road was bumpy. The photographs reveal the heart break of casualties, victories that were diminished by the death of brave soldiers, and the courage of the armed forces that fought the barbarism of enemies in a no holds barred war .

January: U.S. technology provides the Army Air Force with the "buzz bomb" that is superior to the German V-1 rocket.

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January 9: Japanese offer heavy resistance to U,S. invasion of
Luzon (Philippines) and U.S. Seventh Fleet treats its burn victim
casualties. Americans also exact a toll.

January 17: Warsaw liberated by Red Army, but retrospectively, it meant Soviet domination.

Russian Offensive

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January 26: The German offensive in Belgium is halted. Two U.S. soldiers escaping barrage. World War 2 PhotographsPart 5

February: Americans attack Manila against heavy Japanese resistance, and very few are captured alive.

February 4: 5,000 allied civilian prisoners freed from Japanese camp in Manila.

May: U.S. Military Railway Service in India improvises, in the absence of a switching engine, to move train.

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May: Americans on Okinawa utilize bomb crater to bathe along side downed Japanese plane.

May 30: United States troops repulse bonzai attack on Mindaneo, Philippines.

June: Captured 17 year old German spy executed by U.S. firing squad.

June 15: Colonel Francis I. Fenton, First Marine Division, Okinawa, kneels over the body of his dead son, Michael, killed in action. Both served in the same regiment. Death is on the eve of Japanese surrender of Okinawa.

July 14: U.S.S. Massachusetts shells, for the first time, a Japanese home island, Honshu.

August 6: Hiroshima struck by atomic bomb.

August 9: Nagasaki struck by atomic bomb.

,August 31: General MacArthur greets liberated General Jonathan M. Wainwright captured in the Philippines, who said,"Oh boy! This is what I've been hoping and waiting for three and half years. I couldn't be happier". Wainwright was imprisoned in Manchuria.

September2 : Japanese formally surrender on the deck of U.S.S. Missouri.